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What I want is an option to find the route with the least amount of turns. I live in a place with little to no urban planning and extremely confusing street lay
by pezezin 6y ago
What I want is an option to find the route with the least amount of turns. I live in a place with little to no urban planning and extremely confusing street layout, and Google will consistently choose very twisty routes, only to later zoom out the map and find that I could have followed an L or S shaped route with just one or two turns.
- atty 6y agoAs mentioned in another reply, Apple Maps many times suggests the “simplest” path (I believe it’s the minimum number of turns, but I’m not sure) as an option next to the fastest route. I think it’s my favorite feature of Apple Maps, and it’s the primary reason I use it over Google Maps.
- pezezin 6y agoThanks for the tip. Is Apple Maps available for Android? Anyway, my girlfriend has iPhone, I will ask her to look for a few routes so we can compare.
- Igelau 6y agoI got a route from them recently that wanted me to turn left on a six lane road, no traffic light, to make a quick right turn from the farthest lane, during rush hour.
- pezezin 6y agoThe widest road where I live is only two lanes (per side), but it still wanted me to make an U turn in the middle of the road, with several cars tailing behind me and trucks coming in the opposite direction!
- tomaskafka 6y agoThere are many reasonable requests like this - I would love an option to take a scenic route when I have time, to see a new countryside just behind a hill from a highway I usually travel through. Or city transport route with as few changes as possible, to enjoy the booknor to make travelling with toddler easier. Guess these won't get a middle manager a promotion for rising some key metric, though.